I realized this morning that I don’t necessarily have to install Subversion on Bluehost to be able to use it — I can have my Mac be the server. Granted, that means I won’t be able to access it from other computers, but for now that’s not really a problem because this is the only computer I do development on. (Well, other than my Windows box at work, but its importance is quickly fading to nothingness now that I have a Mac. :))
So, I’m in the middle of building Subversion on Tiger. It’s a piece of cake — Dan Benjamin’s articles on Hivelogic are really good and easy to follow.
Later on I’ll see how TextMate’s Subversion integration is.
[tags]Subversion, Bluehost, OS X, Hivelogic, TextMate[/tags]
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I’m thinking of installing subversion on my bluehost account, but it seems like a huge headache. Do you think it’s even possible?
It does seem like a huge headache, and because it’s an actual server, I don’t know if it’s even possible (as a normal user). The best bet is probably to pester them until they add support for it. :) Considering that they originally said they weren’t going to support Ruby on Rails and then turned around and made it available for everyone, there’s a good chance they’d add it.
Okay, I got a reply from Bluehost support:
I don’t quite see the “it would probably take a while” argument holding much water, frankly. Ruby on Rails seems like it would have taken a lot more effort to set up than Subversion would. (But I could be wrong.) At any rate, this is the kind of response I got before they announced support for it, so hopefully they’ll do an about-face like last time. :)
Yeah, one of these days I need to get around to checking in my .bashrc, .emacs, etc. into the free Subversion server that I get with my DreamHost web hosting. I don’t know why I keep procrastinating. I’ve read most of the Subversion red book so it shouldn’t even be that hard.
Here’s a way to install SVN on Bluehost…
http://www.bluehostforums.com/showpost.php?p=7223&postcount=16
Hope that helps.